Best International Shortcut

FLESH
Camila Kater

Honorable Mentions
CARLOTTA’S FACE
Valentin Riedl and Frédéric Schuld

Best National Shortcut

AGOURO
David Doutel and Vasco Sá

Best Animation

GENIUS LOCI
Adrien Mérigeau

Best Script

SYMBIOSIS
Nadja Andrasev

Best Student Animation

DAUGHTER
Daria Kashcheeva

Honorable Mentions
GRAVEDAD
Matisse Gonzalez

Best Portuguese Student Animation

ODE TO CHILDHOOD
Luís Vital and João Monteiro

Best Children’s Short

SHOOOM’S ODYSSEY
Julien Bisaro

Honorable Mentions
RATIO BETWEEN TWO VOLUMES
Catarina Sobral

Best Music Videoclip

BLOW TO THE HEAD
Caleb Wood

SCREENING #01
Screening time: 01:03”17”

wednesday.18/nov · 21:00

Movements 10’15” (KOR)
director Dahee Jeong
In the space of 10 minutes, the African baobab tree grows 0.008 mm, the fastest dog in the world, the Greyhound, can run 12 km, and the Earth travels 18,000 km around the Sun. “Movements” is a 10-minute film which I drew at a rate of 2 seconds of animation per day. We are all walking, seeing, working, running, and stopping together.

Purpleboy 13’55” (PRT)
director Alexandre Siqueira
Oscar is a child who sprouts in his parents garden. Nobody knows his biological sex but he claims the masculine gender. One day Oscar lives an extraordinary but painful adventure in an authoritarian and oppressive world. Will he manage to have the identity recognition he desires so much?

Embraced 5’27” (FRA)
director Justine Vuylsteker
Standing still in front of the open window, a woman stares at the dark clouds that obscure the sky. Immobile, she fights against the remembrances of the past.In the clouds, a passionate embrace appears.

Traces 13′ (FRA)
directors Sophie Tavert Macian and Hugo Frassetto
36 000 years ago, in the steep valleys of Ardèche, a drawn animal is a hunted one. In time of hunt, Karou, the animal tracer, and his apprentice Lani, enter the monumental cave to draw. Their ritual is disrupted by a cave lion.

Love He Said 05’40” (FRA)
director Ines Sedan
1973, San Francisco. Charles Bukowski, underground poet and punk ahead of his time, reads his poem LOVE in front of a wild audience who came to listen to the trash poet’s provocations. But that day, instead of the punk, they found a broken man hungry for love.

Genius Loci 15′ (FRA)
director Adrien Mérigeau
There is chaos everywhere: in her head and outside, in the big city. Things are taking on a life of their own. Young Reine is on the search, but she does not know what she is looking for. In delicate drawings and fluid animations, we see the world through her eyes and her perception becomes tangible.

SCREENING #02
Screening time: 01:07’26”

thursday.19/nov · 19:00

The White Moon 08’49” (CHN)
director Cloud Yang
The story takes place in a small town in China around 1930. In that turbulent age, Moon moon did not believe that his mother had left his reality. He remembered that his mother promised to come back for him, so he go on the way to find her.

A Town Called Panic – The County Fair 26′ (BEL)
directors Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier
After much hard work and self-sacrifice, Indian and Cowboy pass their school exams with flying colors. To reward them for their efforts, Horse buys them VIP passes for the Annual Agricultural Fair – but when he leaves the living room to go get them, he slips on a skateboard that had been left lying around and comes crashing down on his head. When Horse wakes up in the hospital, he’s suffering from amnesia and has no idea where he hid the tickets. So begins a race against time for Indian and Cowboy who must get hold of the precious passes before it’s too late…

Artemis 01’04” (ARG)
director Bárbara Cerro
On the Moon, women have fun while they wait to be illuminated by the sun. They play volleyball with Neil Armstrong’s astronaut helmet, they masturbate in the darkness of the cosmos, and constellations are tattooed on their backs. Sunlight begins to seep and the white surface lights up increasingly. Women come together and enjoy this solar bath. A beam of light shines on the bed where a girl sleeps, on Earth. The light disturbs her dreams; the unveiled girl looks through the window and discovers the full moon shining on her head.

Because this is my craft 10’17” (PRT)
director Paulo Monteiro
Because this is my craft” is a film about the vortex of time. It’s also about childhood and how it marks us for life. It’s a film that speaks of the relationship a son has with his father. And of the many words never spoken because they’re written in one’s heart.

Between The Shadows 13’25” (PRT)
directors Mónica Santos and Alice Guimarães
Natália, trapped in a tedious job, engages in a search for a stolen heart. In a world where hearts can be deposited in a bank, the protagonist faces a dilemma: give her heart or keep it to herself.

Season 07’51” (FRA)
director Giovanna Lopalco
A cortege of men dressed in white are walking a young woman to a strange procession. Around this dark landscape, a perpetually moving world will start the metamortphosis of her body.

SCREENING #04
Screening time: 01:06’11”

friday.20/nov · 19:00

Jebeer 09’55” (ISR)
director Reyhane Mirhashemi
The wildlife ranger is patrolling the protective area, while his soul is intertwined with the nature and all the creatures he is protecting. He runs freely and lives with the animals, surrounded by beauty. But, as fate would have it, he is confronted with some poachers.

Afloat 10’55” (PRT)
director Filipe Abranches
A fighter pilot crashes in the middle of the ocean. Against all odds the plane strand on the surface. The pilot’s longing for rescue finally ends through a strange ritual.

Story 05’08” (POL)
director Jolanta Bankowska
‘Story’ is a reflection about modern man in an age of omnipresent technology. Looking through stories – a popular function in many social media platforms – we see people who are lonely, lost or already indifferent about reality surrounding them. Action takes place during one day and it’s told by short, often (auto)ironic scenes, where virtual world sinks to reality.

Tide 14:’05” (PRT)
director Joana Rosa Bragança
Brought by the waves of the sea, a fantastic being of gigantic size discovers a pleasant place of great natural beauty, and makes it his home, becoming the guardian and soul of the place. There, he meets a cheerful little boy with whom he creates a bond of friendship forged in sharing the pleasure that both feel in living in harmony with nature. But one day, peace is threatened by a polluting and noisy tide.

Le Mans 1955 15′ (FRA)
director Quentin Baillieux
The 24 Hours of Le Mans, 1955. 300,000 spectators are watching from the sidelines. It is 6:00 PM when Pierre Levegh’s car ploughs into the spectator stands, scattering the crowd with his car engine’s hot debris. It is a tragedy that will cost more than 80 lives. And yet, the race goes on. At Mercedes, a friend and co-pilot of Pierre Levegh’s is ready to take the relay. His name is John Fitch.

Apfelmus 06’51” (AUT)
director Alexander Gratzer
While two birds talk about their existence, a small apple makes its way into the depths of a cave under watchful eyes.

Mimi 04’17” (DNK)
director Lisa Fukaya
MIMI has a pimple for the first time. She is afraid of being different from other girls and is uncomfortable around those who are different from herself. Because of this, she begins to mimic other girls around her.

SCREENING #05
Screening time: 01:02’03”

friday.20/nov · 21:00

Agouro 15′ (PRT)
directors David Doutel and Vasco Sá
A harsh winter freezes the surface of a river, close to a house where two cousins live. Immersed in the cold wind that rises that day, the rudeness of their relationship grows, reaching its limit.

La Tête Dans Les Orties 14’14” (FRA)
director Paul Cabon
Bastien and his two friends enter the forbidden area. In the ruins and the toxic haze, something is waiting…

Business Meeting 01’45” (BRA)
director Guy Charnaux
Just another business meeting, like any other business meeting. Yes, I believe this is a good description of the film. What do you think?

The Sounds From The Drawers 06’16” (PRT)
director Vitor Hugo
Within the drawers come sounds and images that offer a journey between memory and reverie, the old and the new, the abstract and figurative. They are flashes in the retina: the puppet show, that disc, the tricycle and the corridor… Everything get combined and metamorphosed.

Carlotta’s Face 05′ (DNK)
directors Valentin Riedl and Frédéric Schuld
As a child, Carlotta didn’t expect the people around here to have faces. She even doesn’t recognize her own face. Years later, she learns about a rare, untreatable deficit of her brain. It was art, after all, that offered her a way to finally recognize herself.

Symbiosis 12’48” (FRA)
director Nadja Andrasev
A betrayed wife starts to investigate her husband’s mistresses. Her jealousy is gradually replaced by curiosity.

Pulsion 07′ (ARG)
director Pedro Casavecchia
Dark feelings harvested during the childhood of a kid erupt in violence after his mother dies. Pulsión (Drive) explores themes of abuse and dysfunctional family environments.

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